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This-essay is a7703031.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %RETENTION PROMOTION & TENURE 770303 Institutions of higher education tend towards dominance by technically oriented persons. The reasons for the existence of institutions of higher education are seen in terms of knowledge, information, manipulative skills, and verbal communication --- rather than in terms of emotional maturity, personal familiarity, creative vulnerability, and non-verbal communication. The essential role of the latter aspects of life in meaningful education is lost under dominance by technically oriented persons. The criteria for hiring, retention, promotion, and tenure must (in the minds of technically oriented persons) be objective criteria, ones by which numbers may be assigned and arithmetic comparisons made. The perceived necessity for exclusively objective criteria effectively eliminates from consideration any loving persons who do not permit techniques to dominate their lives. Even if they are technically competent, they may be judged under- qualified because they do not maintain an ultimate concern for techniques---choosing instead to let their ultimate concerns relate to I-Thou dialogues with whole persons. Thus, those people who are ostensibly dedicated to the exclusive use of objective criteria --- may let their subjective perception of others' rejection of technocracy be a subjective grounds for denial of retention, promotion or tenure. Such technocrats lack integrity and promote the fragmentation of those who do have integrity. Overcoming these debilitating processes is not easy. A rededication to traditional values will not be helpful. Working harder in old ways will be to no avail. Improvements in systematic procedures are likely to compound the difficulties. Technical studies of the nature of the problem will not be likely to reveal its inhumane dynamics. Legislation mandating improvements will not enable the imprisoned to escape from their technocratic traps. Harsh criticism of those who are imprisoning themselves and others --- will not enable them to quit affirming their perverted values. Appeals to ultimate legalistic requirements will only harden the prison bars. Excommunication of the technocrats will intensify the technocrats' efforts to maintain full control. Only an unconditional and ultimate dedication to openness (realized through trust and risk in a search for mutual awareness and mutual understanding) will bring understanding. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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